Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Mobile and Med Tech Start-Ups: the Next Great Wave in Ontario?

Last week Barry Gekiere, the tall drink of water who is the new chief of Ontario's Investment Accelerator Fund, coyly announced that he has a fresh $7 million available for life sciences and med tech startups. This leads me to ask application developers, what are you waiting for?

Ontario has one of the largest telemedicine networks in the world. The province is poised to be one giant early adopter of enabling services and technologies that would leverage this network. We also have one of the most highly skilled populations of application developers, and a track record for building profitable services plays(if there's one thing Canada has always done well, it's build service providers - look at the sale this June of Stream the World to Triton Digital Media).

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Barry Gekiere said...

Suzie - thanks for the plug on our new Life Sciences Fund. It's strictly focused on pure life sciences companies but med-tech IT companies need not worry because the IAF has capital and wants to hear from them as well.

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Suzie is a partner with Venture Law Associates LLP in Toronto, Canada, a boutique law firm representing entrepreneurs and emerging companies. Admitted to the New York and Ontario bars, Suzie has worked on Wall Street and Bay Street and at Nortel Networks. Suzie's start up stripes were earned as part of the founding team of Saraide.com, a wireless data startup that was sold to Infospace for $470 million in 2000. A former VC, Suzie now advises private companies at all stages of growth. Suzie is also the founder of Corner Office Beauty, a beauty products and fragrances company.